However, it was at the latter end of the year, this grand lady walked out of the castle into the woods below, as she had often done before, all alone, only her maid was with her.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The painter had leant back and spread himself out in his chair, his nightshirt was wide open, he had pushed his hand inside and was stroking his breast and his sides.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

O, mother! mother!” said St. Clare, clasping his hands, in a sort of transport; and then suddenly checking himself, he came back, and seating himself on an ottoman, he went on: “My brother and I were twins; and they say, you know, that twins ought to resemble each other; but we were in all points a contrast.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

She hit at it, and it eluded her without fuss or effort and with an almost visible blandness, and she had only hit herself.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

There seemed to be a slight hint of inquiry about it, and a sudden impulse seized the other.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Here the writer became again so hopelessly obscure that I was obliged to miss several pages.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Ram Gopal arranged some torn blankets on the floor for my bed, and seated himself on a straw mat.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain all the large fish and to draw them to the shore; but he could not prevent the smaller fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

At this point of his argument the professor was nearly-run down by a delivery boy on a bicycle and saved himself only by a sharp collision with a telegraph pole.
— from The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

I went back into the dark office and waited, and by and by I 'eard them coming along to the gate and patting 'im on the back and saying he ought to be in a pantermime instead o' wasting 'is time night-watching.
— from His Other Self Night Watches, Part 10. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

We got back behind the barricade, and several hundred of the little brown, whited-coated men began gathering there, gliding noiselessly out from the trees.
— from On Foreign Service; Or, The Santa Cruz Revolution by T. T. (Thomas Tendron) Jeans

I shall add then but a single Hint on the Occasion.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

"I hope so, papa," she answered, bringing her books and seating herself on a stool at his feet, he having taken possession of an easy-chair.
— from Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" by Martha Finley

Robert was pleased with this mark of caution in his little brother, and said, "Hold on to that, Frank, it is a remark worthy of your birthday, and I trust that every return of this day will find you as wise in proportion to your age."
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding

Had he been a southerner himself, of course he would have taken the girl and left her at his pleasure, the moment the love-glow faded and the romance grew stale.
— from The King of Alsander by James Elroy Flecker

The doctor, who had snatched up his hat and made a rapid step towards the door, came back and seized hold of his visitor's shoulder, all his benignity having been put to flight by her unlooked-for revelation.
— from The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

He did not shrink from the murder of the poor and persecuted Ada, because it was a murder—no, it was because he, Jacob Gray, had to do it, unaided and un-cheered in the unholy deed, by aught save his own shivering and alarmed imagination.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer